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orotic aciduria

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orotic aciduria
n.
An inherited disorder of pyrimidine metabolism characterized by megaloblastic anemia, leukopenia, retarded growth, and the excretion of orotic acid in the urine.

orotic aciduria,
a rare autosomal-recessive inherited disorder of pyrimidine metabolism. It includes signs and symptoms of macrocytic hypochromic anemia with megaloblastic changes in bone marrow, leukopenia, retarded growth, and urinary excretion of large amounts of orotic acid.

aciduria
the excretion of acid in the urine. See also specific forms, such as aminoaciduria, orotic aciduria.

orotic aciduria
appearance of orotic acid, an intermediate of pyrimidine synthesis, in the urine due to a lack of orotate phosphoribosyltransferase activity.
paradoxical aciduria
occurs when a metabolic alkalosis caused by severe vomiting or pooling of gastric secretions in the abomasum leads to renal bicarbonate reabsorption and sodium-hydrogen exchange with the inappropriate production of acid urine.


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